Good Color Combinations for the <BODY>

Standards Used, Assumptions Made.

High contrast is required for readability.

Light color backgrounds are best.

Text should be black (or a very dark color).

The colors should look good on 256 -color monitors as well.(All of the colors suggested on this page are within the 256 basic colors, so they should look the same on 255-color monitors as they do on monitors with more colors.)

Link colors should be standard.

The link color should be blue (or bluish)

The visited link color should be purple (or redish).

JavaScript Background Color Chooser

If you are using a JavaScript-enabled browser, then you can see the topmost colors of each list.

Notes

Just copy and paste one of these into your HTML page.

Those marked with * are less acceptable and it would probably be better to avoid them.